mini-adventures in mobile, geo and arduino dev in > 140 characters...

I attended an Internet of Things with Arduino @MadLabUK course last year and thought it would be cool to use an Arduino (in this case a Mega) to display some of the data that is accessible through the HERE maps APIs a.k.a the HERE platform (used to be known as the Nokia Location Platform prior…

Introducing GPSjake One of the reasons behind me starting this blog was that it would give me a resting ground for a little app I worked on quite a while ago (and for quite a while) but did nothing with. A place where I could document it a little, post the source code for prosperity…

I bought an arduino kit from oomlout which contained a motor, servo and other bits and bobs. Using the kit I upgraded the cycling indicator (see previous post) so that, as well as a light being turned on when the account being monitored sends a ‘Mike is cycling’ tweet, a motor is activated. The motor…

Not posted for a while. There’s a few reasons for this. 1. DIY. 2. The Wire. 3. I’m working on a project that’s been in the pipeline for a long time. Anyway, back in June last year I attended an introductory Arduino course run by Omniversity at Madlab, Manchester. It was great fun and I…

Thought it was about time I stepped on the mashup bandwagon, a good number of years after the bandwagon had set out on it’s journey. I’d be wanting to play with a mapping JavaScript API for some time and had seen some examples of people using the Google maps API with live traffic CCTV images…

A friend of mine, who lectures at a university, was wondering about getting his students to submit a vote on the outcome of a debate in the days following the lecture. He was wondering about using Twitter for this – in the end he ditched the idea as not all of the class twitterererered. Anyway…

Had great fun a couple of weekends ago at the Arduino Introduction to Physical Computing course run by the Omniversity at Madlab, Manchester. I’m interested in putting together a prototype for a second screen which shows information from your mobile phone (communicated via bluetooth) for use when on the push bike. Kind of like Sony…

Yeah – think i might be losing it with the post titles. I decided I wanted to take a look at the consumer preview of Windows 8 using some virtualisation software. I had some previous experience of VirtualBox – all good – I used it to run an Ubuntu installation on my PC (Dell Latitude…

Quite proud of the title of this post. At a Mobile Monday Manchester meeting back in September last year (2011) QR codes were discussed. Different designs of QR codes were shown. This was interesting because I wasn’t aware that these codes could be styled to some extent using colour and even by playing with the…

So it’s been a while since I put anything up on the ol’ internet. Way back when I worked on a couple of classic asp sites and I also used to manage content on the website for a band I played in – basically maintaining HTML pages – but nothing since. After speaking to some…